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May 24, 2022 at 8:36 am #1204962163
With him giving one of his career best performances in The Staircase which is airing currently and having Empire Of Light incoming, Colin Firth is having a moment.
I’d love to see Colin in the mix!
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 22, 2022 at 11:03 am #1204960310Viola Davis calling out critics was very hypocritical of her but one poorly received role is okay and we can’t forget she is still one of the best actresses working today.
Well, I’m all for “calling out” critics. Unless they make movies themselves. What a herding job…
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 22, 2022 at 10:51 am #1204960301Why are people on this thread acting like Wes Anderson didn’t just give us the Oscar nominated gems of Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs back to back in the last decade before The French Dispatch. And those movies didn’t have different plot, settings and lead characters even though he had the usual suspects in the ensemble.
And even The French Dispatch wasn’t all that bad in my opinion. He was clearly going for a tribute to the New Yorker with vignettes about different articles one could find in a New Yorker issue. It was okay for what it was..
This film on the other hand apparently has one full plot and a straightforward story unlike French Dispatch. So I don’t get why everyone is being so negative.
Negativity is de riguere here, most of the time. Unless we’re talking about EEAAO….
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 22, 2022 at 10:46 am #1204960299The random fumes over people being excited over the fact that Michelle Yeoh could win an Oscar is bordering on immaturity and miserableness. Last I checked, it was May and the Oscars were 10 and a half months away, so I’m absolutely bewildered as to why people are dogmatically declaring winners right now. Absolutely no one and nothing is win-locked or even nom-locked, so let’s relax.
Lol. Although, once in a while someone’s won it by now and maintains the momentum. Usually in supporting….
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 22, 2022 at 10:29 am #1204960255A standing O? Sure…..Tom must be so happy….
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 22, 2022 at 10:26 am #1204960245Movies released on Friday, May 20:
Downton Abbey: A New Era—A-
Men—D+Wonder why they put a “plus” on D. Never seen an F+….
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 22, 2022 at 9:46 am #1204960190Don’t waste time arguing with these tasteless trolls shitting on the best movie of the year. Mind you they hating and they haven’t even seen it in theaters yet 💀 This movie is truly unforgettable for me. Acclaimed by fans and critics for a reason. ❤
Surprise!
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 22, 2022 at 9:45 am #1204960185Holy Spider First Reactions
Amy Smith: Within the first five minutes of HOLY SPIDER, my mouth was on the floor. By the end I was shaking and nearly in tears. Ali Abbasi has truly made something special and I hope people pay attention and watch what he has to say.
Monica Delgado: Holy Spider is an example of how a filmmaker who made a couple of interesting genre films ends up overwhelmed by the demands and formulas demanded by the festival market. Ali Abbasi made a thriller that wallows in the abject. Applause for suffocated women in the foreground.
Rafa Sales Ross: A crushing disappointment if you came in looking for the blood-pumping, batshit weirdness of BORDER, Ali Abbasi’s crime thriller HOLY SPIDER blends Fincher and Farhadi in an anticlimactic moral exercise that never banks on the thrilling promise of its first act.
Lisa Ludwig: Completely empty and dead after Holy Spider I don’t know when was the last time a film gave me such a tight feeling in my chest. Clapping feels wrong, but it’s right, because the film deserves it, even if it is terrible in what it shows.
Anaïs Bordages: about a series of femicides in Iran and the man who commits them, is chilling. It’s going to take me a few hours to decide if this is a good thing or not, but my immediate reaction is that I didn’t want to see this.
Gregory Ellwood: Ali Abassi is a a very talented director. More impressed by early thriller elements in Holy Spider than trial stuff in last third
Adam Solomons: grim, grim, grim. Effective, if formulaic. Solid performances all-round. Iranian cinema has a different convention for violence against women, maybe.
Jack Schenker: Wow, came into this expecting a slow drama….i am now incredibly shook. This is a very fucked up film…one tht grabs you by the throat and never lets go. The first half was stronger than the second but man…what a brutal and excellent film
FilmLand Empire: visually stunning, chilling and atmospheric investigation thriller about a real life serial killer in Iran that grows in depth with its politically charged third act. Oh and the score is haunting. Angry and masterful
Rafael Motamayor: HOLY SPIDER is fucking bleak, and reminded me a lot of SE7EN in its first half which is an incredible exercise in tension. The 3rd act is too formulaic in its procedural aspect but the movie still rules. Also, at times I thought this was a better Joker than Joker? Idk
Jason Gorber: part procedural, part political polemic, Ali Abbasi brings Persian precision and Danish sense of mood to this dark, disturbing period of Iranian history. Like BORDER that engaged genre tropes while twisting them this film feels like a long pent-up scream.
Holy Spider First Reactions
Amy Smith: Within the first five minutes of HOLY SPIDER, my mouth was on the floor. By the end I was shaking and nearly in tears. Ali Abbasi has truly made something special and I hope people pay attention and watch what he has to say.
Monica Delgado: Holy Spider is an example of how a filmmaker who made a couple of interesting genre films ends up overwhelmed by the demands and formulas demanded by the festival market. Ali Abbasi made a thriller that wallows in the abject. Applause for suffocated women in the foreground.
Rafa Sales Ross: A crushing disappointment if you came in looking for the blood-pumping, batshit weirdness of BORDER, Ali Abbasi’s crime thriller HOLY SPIDER blends Fincher and Farhadi in an anticlimactic moral exercise that never banks on the thrilling promise of its first act.
Lisa Ludwig: Completely empty and dead after Holy Spider I don’t know when was the last time a film gave me such a tight feeling in my chest. Clapping feels wrong, but it’s right, because the film deserves it, even if it is terrible in what it shows.
Anaïs Bordages: about a series of femicides in Iran and the man who commits them, is chilling. It’s going to take me a few hours to decide if this is a good thing or not, but my immediate reaction is that I didn’t want to see this.
Gregory Ellwood: Ali Abassi is a a very talented director. More impressed by early thriller elements in Holy Spider than trial stuff in last third
Adam Solomons: grim, grim, grim. Effective, if formulaic. Solid performances all-round. Iranian cinema has a different convention for violence against women, maybe.
Jack Schenker: Wow, came into this expecting a slow drama….i am now incredibly shook. This is a very fucked up film…one tht grabs you by the throat and never lets go. The first half was stronger than the second but man…what a brutal and excellent film
FilmLand Empire: visually stunning, chilling and atmospheric investigation thriller about a real life serial killer in Iran that grows in depth with its politically charged third act. Oh and the score is haunting. Angry and masterful
Rafael Motamayor: HOLY SPIDER is fucking bleak, and reminded me a lot of SE7EN in its first half which is an incredible exercise in tension. The 3rd act is too formulaic in its procedural aspect but the movie still rules. Also, at times I thought this was a better Joker than Joker? Idk
Jason Gorber: part procedural, part political polemic, Ali Abbasi brings Persian precision and Danish sense of mood to this dark, disturbing period of Iranian history. Like BORDER that engaged genre tropes while twisting them this film feels like a long pent-up scream.
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 20, 2022 at 6:29 am #1204957793
Lol! Touche
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 17, 2022 at 11:10 am #1204954808If I Can Dream
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis – If I Can Dream – Måneskin …: https://youtu.be/7lEeJr5Au1A
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 16, 2022 at 6:35 pm #1204954189Don’t know if anyone yet shared the first teaser for Broker.
Yes I did but more is always welcome.
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 16, 2022 at 6:33 pm #1204954187I mean in 2020
There were many history making achievements
The first female of color director winner , the first Korean winner , the first British black winner ..etc
Even in 2021
The first deaf man winner
The first afro Latina winner
Ampas loves to makes history that’s how they worked
Wonderful to contemplate. Scorsese’s film if it’s delayed a year might be terrific timing for Lily.
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I prefer my roses whiteMay 14, 2022 at 7:38 pm #1204952226Damn, OneRepublic’s really gone downhill with their music.
Agreed.
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